From 1992 to 2007, he served on the Board of Directors at Aetna. After his retirement from CBS, Jordan became chairman of two companies, Luminant Worldwide Corporation in Dallas, where he served from 1999 to 2001, and eOriginal Inc., a Baltimore company on whose board he remained. He also served on the boards of several smaller, privately held companies, including BlackLight Power, Inc. (now Brilliant Light Power, Inc.) located in Cranbury, NJ. He was also a board member of WPP Group plc. He served on the board of the Center for Excellence in Education and was its chairman from 1988 to 1992. In 1986, he joined the Board of the United Negro College Fund, and from 1994 to 2004, he served as its Chairman. He was a member of the Yale School of Management Advisory Board and Chairman of the Yale University Council Committee on Engineering and Applied Science. Michael was a member of the President's Export Council under the Clinton Administration, and chairman of its Subcommittee on Export Administration. He was a member of the Council of Retired Chief Executives, a former chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a trustee of The Brookings Institution; a member and former chairman of the U.S.-Japan Business Council; a former member of The Business Council; a member of the board of trustees of the United States Council for International Business; a member of the International Advisory Board of British-American Business Inc.; and a former member of the Business Roundtable. Death He died of neuroendocrine cancer on May 25, 2010, at the age of 73. Other Bloomberg Business Week: Executive Profile. References 1936 births 2010 deaths American businesspeople Yale University alumni Princeton University alumni Deaths from cancer in New York (state)